Word: fatalism
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...culminates in a recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...
...good old Warner Brothers hack, Clavell lets the atmosphere seep in as his story rides, doesn't try to obfuscate the dialogue, and relies squarely on his camera only in climactic moments. Since the film is an epic, there are many of them: gruesome treks, battle scenes and fatal individual combats. There is little of the David Lean-William Wyler pretension strangling itself in technicolor and wallowing in bathos...
...haunted WASP protagonists of John Speicher's novels seem to have a fatal weakness for social causes they cannot call their own. In Looking for Baby Paradise, a young Ivy League Lancelot risks life and sanity as a youth-recreation worker among the warring street gangs of New York's Washington Heights. Now in Didman, Speicher's second novel, an alcoholic publishing executive loses himself in a black-militant plan to attack the New York Stock Exchange...
...exemplifies it. A strapping, jovial Serbian, he is in the U.S. this year, tranquilly teaching a course called "Heresy and Dissent" at Brandeis University. But he lived through years of almost inhuman warfare as a Tito partisan in World War II, and still suffers searing headaches from a near fatal war wound. "When my head hurts," the otherwise generous Dedijer admits, "I hate all Germans, including Marx and Goethe...
...number of passenger-miles flown by the Boeing 707 in its first twelve months of service. The statistics would have been the same if the 747 had moved the entire population of Ireland from London to San Francisco. Most important, the 747 accomplished its job without a single fatal accident. No other aircraft has flown so far without serious mishap. Today, 100 big 747s fly for 18 airlines, and without them the skies might be considerably more crowded. To carry the same number of passengers -250,000 per week-would require a fleet...